Sentences with phrase «by luck alone»

Say what you will about him, he didn't get where he is by luck alone.

The authors define a «false discovery» as a mutual fund that exhibits significant alpha by luck alone.

The short moment of glory doesn't always occur by luck alone.

For those to whom it applies, it can be hard to confront and accept — especially in America, where the idea that anybody got anything by luck alone goes against everything we've been taught is admirable and pure.

Not exact matches

It's a smart movie — a quintessentially L.A. one, too, in its self - awareness (the nameless hero is a stuntman, Richard Rush fans take note), and it has an extraordinary quality of stillness that paints in confident strokes what it feels like to be completely alone by luck you call choice.

Once these external forces intervene to boost a book's sales figures a feedback cycle can be started in which WoM reinforces the effect of these external influencers and in turn, with luck, attracts more recommendations by people with clout or by the algorithms but I don't believe that in most genres WoM alone can do the job.

Unless you whittle an opponent's health bar down by luck, it's impossible to make it to the second round, let alone the Fatman and his harem of alien babes.

Otherwise, you can expect to play through these challenges dozen of times, typically winning through sheer luck alone, punctuated by the game uttering the words «YOU FAIL» more times than a pack of internet - obsessed preteens.

If we should have luck here in Germany, and the EEG does not fail, it would mean that in 20 years we'd have a grid mostly powered by renewable energy, paid by the private households alone, that will produce cheap electricity for the industry at a time when oil, gas and coal will be much more expansive than today.